the architectonic concept of breaking words are the building blocks of our time together repetition of words means redundancy redundancy is necessary for the sustainment of a stable system positive redundancy creates color negative redundancy eats color – creates blackness

An alien home
in an alien land
the soil of tomorrow
– isn’t it melting?
A Fremdenhaus
I’m trying to make mine
But I’m not there –
can I escape it?
The walls there are staring
Will you melt me?
Can I take your bed sheet
as my mountain
and carry them
as a warm castle?

As I said, I write some times. Mostly something like poetry. I know, now it’s the end of the summer (at least in my part of the Earth) and the thing you’ll read bellow was written around November or December 2010 (if I remember correctly). It’s sort of sad, so if you don’t like sad stuff, you may not like it. Long story short… well that’s it – enjoy :)

meine kleine Kunstgeschichte

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Mona Lisa has become the synonym for “great”, “magnificent”, “sublime” art. Mona Lisa’s smile lives a life on its own. Everybody has heard of this painting, nowadays everybody knows how it looks like (for more on that topic check Walter Benjamin’s The Work of Art in the Age of Mechanical Reproduction). Why? It is in […]

The series about Suleiman the Magnificent on Extra History just started a few days ago, this time with a slightly different story telling approach but just as appealing, telling the story of his reign in an accurate (or at least so it seems) and entertaining way, inspiring further interest. That’s the way history needs to be […]